After hearing Jiang Yunan's words, the dean looked at the children eating around him.
"Perhaps it's because I have a soft heart. When I saw that the children were not getting enough to eat, I took over the orphanage from the previous director and developed it to this day."
The dean looked melancholy and pretended to be heartbroken in front of Xu Yangyang: "But our place is too far from the city, and few people come here to adopt children."
He looked at the children who looked thin and small; "I am also very poor and cannot take care of so many children. As a result, they are not as fat and white as the children in urban welfare homes, and there are fewer people willing to adopt them." ."
The liar is too thick-skinned. Has his face been split from the middle and stuck to the other side? Half of it is shameless, and the other half is skinny!
Xu Yangyang cursed the dean in her heart and clenched her hands, wishing she could really open her mouth to curse.
Seeing this, Jiang Yunan quickly circled Xu Yangyang's fist so that the dean could not see that she was angry, and then continued with the dean: "Then we are really in the right place. I told you before that we would adopt more children. , but the children here are very young and I don’t like it very much, but my wife has been insisting.”
Jiang Yunan said subtly that Xu Yangyang had the final say on all adoption matters.
As expected, the dean set his sights on Xu Yangyang: "Madam is still soft-hearted, but I see that Madam seems to like all the children here. Can't you choose?"
Xu Yangyang suppressed the anger rising in her heart and forced a smile on her lips: "It's a bit difficult for me to choose. After all, the children here are very obedient."
The dean nodded with satisfaction after hearing Xu Yangyang's words: "It's no wonder, they all want to be adopted, so they will naturally behave more obediently."
Xu Yangyang said nothing and ate slowly with Jiang Yunan, while her mind was thinking crazily about how to rescue these children from the dean.
While eating, she suddenly felt something touching her feet, and then she heard the dean's very calm voice: "Why are you so careless?"
Xu Yangyang looked down and saw a thin little girl. She was planning to walk over with the food in her hands, but accidentally fell down.
The floor here is made of bricks and is naturally uneven, so children can easily fall if they don't walk steadily.
The food was spilled on the floor. The children shivered after hearing the dean's words, and looked up at them with fear in their eyes.
Xu Yangyang couldn't see the child like this, so she hurriedly reached out to help her, and her words were very gentle: "Baby, are you okay? Get up quickly. Can auntie help you make another meal?"
But the child didn't look at Xu Yangyang at all, her eyes were always on the dean.
Even though the dean's expression was calm and he didn't say anything to blame her, her body still kept shaking.
Then, in the shocked eyes of Xu Yangyang and Jiang Yunan, the child suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to the dean: "Dean, it's all my fault, please forgive me."
Such a young child doesn't have any more flowery words to apologize. The only thing he can do is kowtow and say sorry.
It was obviously not her fault, but she actually knelt in the hot food, hoping that the majestic dean in front of her would be lenient.
Her nervous body was trembling, and it seemed that she would not get up unless the dean said he would forgive her.
Xu Yangyang looked at the dean, pretending to be confused and said: "Dean, this is..."
The surroundings became quiet for a moment, and the only sound that could be heard in the huge cafeteria was the sound of children kowtowing.
Under the gaze of Xu Yangyang and Jiang Yunan, the dean stretched out his hand with a kind smile, helped her up, and very gently patted off the vegetable leaves stuck to her body.
"It's nothing, don't be afraid." The dean's voice was calm, as if he didn't care about what happened to her: "Isn't it just a meal? Go wash it off and make another meal. "
The child cried when the dean held her hand. She shrank back, as if she was really afraid that the dean would hit her.
"You see, the children don't dare to speak loudly when outsiders are around." The dean naturally attributed the child's insurance to the existence of Xu Yangyang and Jiang Yunan.
If Jiang Yunan hadn't stopped him, Xu Yangyang would have really cursed!
The dean didn't seem to notice Xu Yangyang's expression, and still had a kind smile on his face. He said to the aunt who came over: "Take her down quickly to change clothes and come back to eat, otherwise the food will be cold in a while."
The aunt immediately took the child down. If Xu Yangyang read it correctly, the child seemed to be even more frightened when the aunt took her down.
"Sorry, I made you laugh." The smile on the dean's face did not diminish, but Jiang Yunan saw that his smile did not reach his eyes and was very fake.
Xu Yangyang naturally saw it, but now was not the time to break up with the dean. She could only endure the anger in her heart and said with a fake smile: "It doesn't matter, but I think this child seems to be very afraid of adults. , is it something you have experienced before?”
The dean naturally thought that Xu Yangyang would ask this question, and immediately replied: "She is very pitiful. She was old enough to remember, but her parents passed away in a car accident one day, and no other relatives were willing to raise her. She was abandoned and sent to me. ."
"Because the relatives who abandoned her said a lot of vicious words, her mental state became unstable after that. She would tremble when she saw adults angry or making mistakes." The dean said while watching the aunt clean up the food on the floor: "Actually, she is also a very obedient child, so don't think too much about her."
Xu Yangyang pretended to nod thoughtfully, but when the child knelt down to beg for mercy, she still saw a scar on the child's back.
If nothing else, it was also done with a whip.
On the surface, she pretended not to notice, but in fact she had already gritted her back molars to prevent herself from being unable to control herself from swearing.
The dean was also observing the expressions of Xu Yangyang and Jiang Yunan, and saw shock in their eyes.
In fact, he had doubts about the identity of the couple in front of him when they agreed to live here.
The environment here is very bad. Many people who come to adopt take their children and leave without staying here for one night.
Therefore, he has always been very suspicious of their identity. He felt that they were not here to adopt children, but rather wanted to investigate here.
Xu Yangyang and Jiang Yunan looked at each other and saw caution in their eyes, so Xu Yangyang said: "Dean, you are observant and know every child well, otherwise we would still be curious about why the children become like this."
"Yes, you have worked hard to take care of so many children and are so kind. You will definitely live a much better life in the future than you do now." Jiang Yunan also spoke at the right time, trying to dispel the dean's doubts: "After we adopt the children from you, we will definitely live a better life." We will publicize it more to the outside world, so that you can get more donations from the society."
